| Like most high schoolers |
TEENAGE |
| Loch __ monster |
NESS |
| Long skirt |
MAXI |
| Longest African river |
NILE |
| Make happy |
ELATE |
| Med. school course |
ANAT |
| Messy one |
SLOB |
| Minnie Mouse's pal |
MICKEY |
| Monumental |
EPIC |
| Nebraska city |
OMAHA |
| Porterhouse alternative |
TBONE |
| Pull away in fear |
SHRINKBACK |
| Put forth, as effort |
EXERT |
| Put in position |
PLACE |
| Quaint hotels |
INNS |
| Retain |
KEEP |
| Reverberate |
ECHO |
| Ring out |
PEAL |
| Risky business, for short |
SPEC |
| See 56 Across |
LALA |
| Seize |
TAKE |
| Ship's backbone |
KEEL |
| Slightly |
ABIT |
| Snakelike swimmer |
EEL |
| Steed-stopping shout |
WHOA |
| Stop marching |
HALT |
| Summits |
ACMES |
| Thickly packed |
DENSE |
| Turns down, as a light |
DIMS |
| Unlimited expenses, so to speak |
BLANKCHECK |
| Unskillful |
INEPT |
| Voting alliances |
BLOCS |
| Walesa of Poland |
LECH |
| Warehouse worker |
STOCKCLERK |
| Wide-awake nature |
ALERTNESS |
| With 34 Across, singing syllables |
TRA |
| Without a break |
NONSTOP |
| Woodwind instrument |
OBOE |
| __ Antoinette (French queen) |
MARIE |
